Is it surprising that in this messed-up society where body dysmorphia is celebrated, it would be young girls who succumb to this? I think it's rather predictable. From a very young age, female children (regardless of color) are viewed very differently than male children. We grow up very aware of how our sex is...viewed. How we are to look to be accepted. Desired. Sexual objects. Body dysmorphia is nothing new for girls and women. Hell fortunes are created catering to women's hunger to change their bodies. We at very young ages try to physically change ourselves to fit in. All the time. Girls are constantly flooded with media making them feel unworthy. Just for being in their own skin. To hide the body we have, to create what we are told is a better one. This is not new. Not at all. We have social media always telling us what we should look like, what is pretty and what is not. What is good? What is not?

And we from the moment we are born, are preyed upon. 1 in 6 women in their lifetime will be sexually assaulted. I think that number is not accurate. I think it's more like 1 in 4 based on my own experiences living as and around many women in my lifetime. I know this is something in today's society we try to pretend doesn't happen but it does. Nothing makes a girl want to hide her body more than someone trying go take it for their own. You mentioned that it is mostly middle-class white girls. Being that it is also 2022 of course this is yet again a finger-pointing issue. Who wants to be a white middle-class anything anymore? Doesn't matter if you are straight or gay. Being white, especially middle-class white is negative now. I also think there is more to it than just that but I do think it plays into affect. Everyone wants to be different. The new cool is trans cool. That said I also think it's because many other cultures do not embrace the Trans narrative. White culture is dismissed. Or rather it has become a bunch of pansies. Trying to apologize for existing. Validating themselves by following in line to the " the current thing" mentality. So in answer to this question is no, I don't find it shocking at all. Not one bit. Nothing like people going along with truths becoming untruths and untruths becoming truth. Got to believe what you are told so you can fit in. Be special. Who wants to be a woman? You get called made-up slang and threatened all .... for being born a woman. What is that James Brown song? " this is a man's world But it wouldn't be nothing without a woman or a girl " Hmmm-. imagine that.